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Depending on the size of the town or village where your ancestors lived, it might have had its own parish church. It might have been too small, and people attended church (and had their records kept) in a nearby larger town. The same thing applies to civil registry offices. So now you need to do a little more geographic reference work to find out the names of those larger towns, if necessary. | Depending on the size of the town or village where your ancestors lived, it might have had its own parish church. It might have been too small, and people attended church (and had their records kept) in a nearby larger town. The same thing applies to civil registry offices. So now you need to do a little more geographic reference work to find out the names of those larger towns, if necessary. | ||
[[File:Blue check.png|25px]] '''Use gazetteers, and directories to determine these important facts about the town:''' | [[File:Blue check.png|25px]] '''Use maps, gazetteers, and directories to determine these important facts about the town:''' | ||
*the location of the Lutheran or Catholic parish for the town | *the location of the Lutheran or Catholic parish for the town | ||
*the location of the civil registration office for the town | *the location of the civil registration office for the town | ||
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Earlier, you used *[http://mapa.szukacz.pl '''Mapa.Szukacz.pl'''] to find the voivodeship of your town. It also lists the '''"commune".''' Usually the civil registration office will be in the commune.<br> | |||
Watch the online course, [https://familysearch.org/ask/learningViewer/712 '''Poland Historical Geography'''] '''The second half of this lesson will demonstrate several gazetteers.'''<br> | Watch the online course, [https://familysearch.org/ask/learningViewer/712 '''Poland Historical Geography'''] '''The second half of this lesson will demonstrate several gazetteers.'''<br> | ||
Links to those gazetteers, and more instructions, can be found in the article [[Poland Gazetteers|'''Poland Gazetteers'''.]] | Links to those gazetteers, and more instructions, can be found in the article [[Poland Gazetteers|'''Poland Gazetteers'''.]] | ||
You might just locate the parish churches which appear to be closest to your town of village. This is not foolproof, as they may have been built more recently, or had boundaries to the parish that stretched in a different direction excluding your town. However, if you write to the wrong parish, they will forward your request to the correct parish. Here are two directories for parish address:<br> | |||
==[[Poland Finding Aids]]== | ==[[Poland Finding Aids]]== | ||